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I need you to need me like an addict needs the needle. I want to be the fire burning in your veins, Theo. When you breathe, I want you drowning in your need to be with me.”
“You know, there’s a part of me that wants to watch you come like this. I want to watch you come apart without ever spoiling you. Keep you pristine and know you’ll never be touched again except by the hands you want.”
“The things I would do in your name… There isn’t any line I wouldn’t cross for you. You understand that, don’t you? I’d burn this whole world to ash just to have you. I own you, but you own me too, Theo.”
“What does my beautiful, strong, River think about when I tell him he’s so goddamn perfect that he looks like a god when the moon hits him just right?”
I was directionless, lost at sea without a beacon. You’ve become that for me. You’re my lighthouse, Theo. No matter how far I go, as long as I can still see you, I know I can come back from the dark.”
“I always thought of love as a chemical process in the brain, the release of dopamine and oxytocin to promote bonding. That doesn’t happen in my brain the way it does for normal people. But maybe I’m wrong. Maybe love can look different sometimes. It can be this. It can be us.”
Fuck labels. Fuck the assholes in lab coats and their stupid psych degrees and the whole DSM series. You make me happy. Why can’t that count as love?”
